Bel-Ami (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- First Published: 1885
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: c. 1885
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: France or French people, Nineteenth century, Paris, Adultery, Greed, Ambition, Newspapers, Reporting or reporters
- Locales: Paris, France, Cannes, France, Normandy, France
Places Discussed
*Paris. Capital of France and the social, political, and cultural center of French life. Georges Duroy’s rise (and there are passages where he literally climbs stairways to one success or another) is reflected in his material and romantic triumphs. The novel’s first chapter shows the beginning of Duroy’s career as a boulevardier, an individual who spends a good deal of time going from café to café to see and be seen. In fact, while strolling some of Paris’s “grands boulevards” and adjacent thoroughfares, Duroy meets magazine editor Forestier, his...
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